KENYA Airways has registered a 13.5 per cent surge in second quarter cargo volumes, reaching 16,021 tonnes. Improved conditions, increased…
HNA’s class cargo ACT
26 / 10 / 2011
CHINA’s HNA Group and Bravia Capital have bought Turkey-based ACT Airlines. HNA plans to capitalise on growing Eurasian cargo traffic…
Victory for Atlas and Polar pilots
25 / 10 / 2011
ATLAS Air Worldwide Holdings (AAWH) has finalised a five-year agreement giving pilots and flight engineers at Atlas Air and Polar…
US begins ETS fight
25 / 10 / 2011
US lawyers have hit back against the European Union’s plans to force carriers worldwide to pay for carbon emissions under…
Hong new FIATA president
24 / 10 / 2011
THE Federation of Freight Forwarders Associations (FIATA) has a new president –Stanley Lim Hwee Hong. Hong has been serving FIATA…
Lufthansa Cargo staff strike
24 / 10 / 2011
LUFTHANSA Cargo staff staged a 90-minute strike at Frankfurt Airport (Germany) today in protest of Hesse court’s decision to impose…
LAN cargo ascending
24 / 10 / 2011
LAN Airlines saw its cargo business increase an average 11.4 per cent per month between July and September this year….
Cargoitalia’s charter comeback
23 / 10 / 2011
FOLLOWING a review of its sales and customer functions in September Cargoitalia has established a new division to cater for…
Korean Air Cargo’s unlucky 13
20 / 10 / 2011
KOREAN Air’s outbound cargo shipments plummeted 13 per cent during the third quarter because of falling IT markets. Sluggish demand…
Hactl changes freight management
20 / 10 / 2011
HONG Kong Air Cargo Terminals (Hactl) will change over to a new HK$240million (US$30.8 million) airfreight management system in December,…
BA’s Kenya freighter foray
20 / 10 / 2011
BRITISH AIRWAYS (BA) looks as though it will beat Kenya Airways to operate the first freighter in the Kenyan market….
FAA’s heavy cargo fine
20 / 10 / 2011
THE Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) plans to fine SkyWest Airlines US$160,000 for failing to accurately document cargo and baggage loads….
SIA up in the air
19 / 10 / 2011
SINGAPORE Airline’s (SIA) cargo may be up, but an ongoing pilot dispute is dragging it down. SIA Cargo recorded a…
Lufthansa Cargo to lose “tens of millions of euros”
19 / 10 / 2011
KARL Ulrich Garnadt, chairman of Lufthansa Cargo, has told Air Cargo News that the surprise blanket ban on night flights…
Air France axes CEO
18 / 10 / 2011
ITS shares have dropped 60 per cent, cargo is down and questions prevail over pilot training – now Air France-KLM’s…
Aircastle’s Southern duo
18 / 10 / 2011
US-headquartered Aircastle has leased two 747-400SFs to Southern Air Holdings. The aircraft are expected to enter commercial service during the…
NZ court to take on Kuehne and Nagel
18 / 10 / 2011
NEW Zealand’s anti-monopoly commission has defeated Kuehne + Nagel’s appeal against cargo price-fixing cartel charges being tried against it. The…
Oman Air’s sea link
17 / 10 / 2011
OMAN Air and the Port of Salalah have signed an agreement opening up a new sea-air cargo corridor through the…
US cargo tax takes off
17 / 10 / 2011
AROUND 10,000 airline jobs in the US could be axed if new federal taxes aimed at reducing the federal budget…
Air France-KLM’s sunny winter trail
17 / 10 / 2011
THIS winter Air France-KLM Cargo and Martinair Cargo are heading where the sun is with a focus on Latin America…
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